Were on the way up...

kazzer

NEW IRB WORLD RANKINGS: Released Monday, February 28:

(1) New Zealand 90.90 Ranking points
(2) Australia 88.58
(3) South Africa 85.78
(4) Ireland 84.30
(5) France 83.27
(6) England 82.81
(7) Wales 81.43
(8) Argentina 77.63
(9) Scotland 74.37
(10) Fiji 74.17


irishrugby.ie

[Jackass]

Excellent stuff! Un-Officially the best team in the northen hemesphere, for the next 3 weeks or so anyway, untill we win the GS Nice to see we're fast catching up with South Africa, who we're better than, and down the road, hopefully the ozzies and all blacks. Also nice to see England ave slipped back so much from 1st place less than two years ago, to almost being passed out by 7th place wales. Glad we've overtaken the french, hopefully we'll cement that in a couple of weeks. Interesting to know that Eddie O'Sullivan has never lost a game to a team ranked lower than us in the world rankings. Hopefully that record can be kept up up to and through the next WC :eek:

Last months rankings:
1 (1) New Zealand 90.90, 2 (2) Australia 88.58, 3 (3) South Africa 85.78, 4 (5) France 85.12, 5 (6) Ireland 83.61, 6 (4) England 83.50, 7 (7) Wales 79.58, 8 (8) Argentina 77.63, 9 (10) Fiji 74.17, 10 (9) Scotland 73.94, 11 (11) Italy 71.25.

Pherekydes

Shouldn't the title read "We are on the way up"?

Will we overtake SA if we beat France and Wales?

Looks like Scotland will soon dribble anaemically out of the top ten...

Amz

You can read how the world rankings are calculated on the IRB's website.

Guy:Incognito

How are the points calculated, is it a ridiculously headwrecking system like the football one?

Amz

From www.irb.com

The Rankings Explained

The IRB World Rankings are calculated using a 'Points Exchange' system, in which sides take points off each other based on the match result. Whatever one side gains, the other loses.

The exchanges are based on the match result, the relative strength of each team, and the margin of victory, and there is an allowance for home advantage.

Points exchanges are doubled during the World Cup Finals to recognise the unique importance of this event, but all other full international matches are treated the same, to be as fair as possible to countries playing a different mix of friendly and competitive matches across the world.

Any match that is not a full international between two member countries does not count at all.

All member countries have a rating, typically between 0 and 100. The top side in the world will normally have a rating above 90

There's also an FAQ Part on the World Rankings section that might help to clarify some things for you.

kazzer

Shouldn't the title read "We are on the way up"?

No smarty pants. Ok, so I omitted the apostrophe (We're).

Pherekydes

kazzer wrote:

No smarty pants. Ok, so I omitted the apostrophe (We're).

Completely changing the sense of the sentence.

Brian017

DubGuy22 wrote:

Excellent stuff! Un-Officially the best team in the northen hemesphere.

There's nothing un-official about it. There's no other Northern hemisphere team above us so therefore we are the best Northern Hemisphere team in the world at the moment.

Loco

hope it lasts! with munster and leinster keeping all the good players in tune i think we'll be up there for a while

[Jackass]

BRIAN017 wrote:

There's nothing un-official about it. There's no other Northern hemisphere team above us so therefore we are the best Northern Hemisphere team in the world at the moment.

ya, but if we lose to wales for example, we could still be ahead of them in the world rankings, but they would officially be champions of Europe/Northen hemisphere...the only way to be officially the best team in the northen hempisphere is results on the pitch i.e. six nations champions...not points on a piece of paper. NZ are ranked first in the world, but can boast neither World champions or Tri-nations champions...so they are un-officially the best team in the world, on form etc., but you don't win trophys for your world ranking...and that's the whole point isn't it? winning trophys? It's all that counts to me, and im sure to the Irish squad Don't get me wrong, it's great the higher you get ranked, and every team wants to be ranked number 1...but at the end of the day it means nothing....it's just a rank, not a result.

Hugh_C

Slow coach wrote:

Completely changing the sense of the sentence.

ah Jaysus!

Even a child wouldn't misconstrue the meaning of the subject thread.

pedant.

BANZAI_RUNNER

Slow coach wrote:

Shouldn't the title read "We are on the way up"?

Will we overtake SA if we beat France and Wales?

Looks like Scotland will soon dribble anaemically out of the top ten...[/QUOTE


I've noticed during my time here on boards , there is a lot of nit-picking on silly subjects, take the one i've highlighted above , very juvenile , lets stay on the subject at hand , and not on punctuation

we're on our way up...................

Trojan

BANZAI_RUNNER wrote:

Slow coach wrote:

Shouldn't the title read "We are on the way up"?

Will we overtake SA if we beat France and Wales?

Looks like Scotland will soon dribble anaemically out of the top ten...[/QUOTE


I've noticed during my time here on boards , there is a lot of nit-picking on silly subjects, take the one i've highlighted above , very juvenile , lets stay on the subject at hand , and not on punctuation

we're on our way up...................

Let's leave the moderation to the moderators, eh?

D'oh.

BANZAI_RUNNER

Trojan wrote:

BANZAI_RUNNER wrote:

Let's leave the moderation to the moderators, eh?

D'oh.

you just proved my point again ,

Trojan

BANZAI_RUNNER banned for gross stupidity (see the charter).

Brian017

God that was funny.

Trojan

The poor fool